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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
ENQUIRIES AND ANSWERS 
TO DESTROY MICE 
Mb. Editor: —I notice in the discussions on 
Fruit, that some varieties of the Pear require to 
be double worked. Will yon please tell me what I 
am to understand by this? (1.) 
Is it better to manure trees in an orchard every 
season, or to wait three or four years, and then 
give a thorough dressing? (2.) t. s. 
Smyrna, N. Y. 
Remarks. —1. A grafted or budded tree, when 
again grafted or budded, is said to be double work¬ 
ed. Some varieties of the pear will not grow on 
the Quince root, and therefore if dwarf trees of 
these varieties are desired, it is necessary to bud 
the Quince with some variety that succeeds well 
on it, and then bud into this the variety desired. 
This is the operation referred to in the discussions 
you mention. 
2. We should prefer to give a small quantity of 
well rotted manure every fall, and have it well 
forked in around the roots, particularly the ex¬ 
tremities. 
Mb. Editoe: —Please inform me through the 
Rural the proper time to graft the Spanish Chest¬ 
nut on the common stock. I have tried for two 
years past, and have failed by grafting at the time 
l grafted other trees. A Subscriber. 
Remarks. —Grafting the Chestnut is a difficult 
operation here. Our nurserymen seldom succeed. 
The manufacture of bronze may be ranked 
amongst tbe oldest of the arts. The ancients used 
a composition of copper, tin, and zinc, adding 
sometimes a small precentage of silver to improve 
the appearance and nature of their hronze. 
In 1841, M. du Ruolf communicated to the Acade¬ 
my of Sciences, at Paris, a method of forming 
articles in bronze by the electrotype process — 
using the double alkaline cyanides of copper and 
tin. He showed the Society the process, which 
consisted of simply coating any metal by means of 
the voltaic battery and the cyanides mentioned — 
similar to the common mode of electrotyping 
which 1 b now so extensively practiced in this city. 
The antique bronze color is afterwards given to 
the figure, by adding to fourteen oz. measures of 
colorless vinegar two drachms of sal ammoniac, 
and half a drachm of binoxalate of potash. This 
solution is to be npplied with a hair pencil in a 
very thin layer, the object having been previously 
slightly warmed. 
There are many different ways of coating com¬ 
mon metals with bronze, and goods of this des¬ 
cription are coming more and more into general 
use. We have seen common cast iron so bronzed 
as to assume a beautiful appearance, and render¬ 
ing the article imprevious to rust in-doors. Spel¬ 
ter forms a good basis, also, to coat upon. 
We have seen some fine specimens of American 
imitation bronze at the office of Jas, G. Gilbeit, 46 
John street, Y. N„ who is extensively engaged 
in the manufacture of real and imitation bronze. 
Statuettes, clock cases, caudelabras, portable gas 
fixtures, etc., of very handsome patterns, were 
shown us at his office; bat the most novel of all 
his curiosities are specimens of insects, toads, 
plants, etc., which castings are taken direct from 
nature, he using the animal or plant as the mold, 
which, of course, renders the production true to 
life .—Scientific American. 
Mb. Editor: —The best way I know of to destroy 
Field Mice, is to take 1 drachm of strychnine, and 
mix it well with !.} pounds of lard. Then, spread 
it thinly on thin slices of bread; cut the bread iu 
small pieces, aud drop it in their holes, and other 
places of retreat, and they will leave with a spasm. 
At all events, I destroyed thousands intbisway the 
last summer and fall. If my experience is of any 
use to the public, it is at their service. 
East Bloomfield, Jan., 185?. L. Barker. 
Mice are becoming very troublesome, and are 
doing immense injury. Last spring we saw fine 
young orchards and thousands of nursery trees al¬ 
most entirely ruined. We have before us a state¬ 
ment from a gentleman in Canada West, that, he 
has preserved bis trees from the mice, by a coating 
of tar and tallow. The departure of snow in the 
spring will undoubtedly show that many highly 
B prized trees have been gir- 
|| died. These may be saved, 
fflj jj} if tbe portion 
LIST OP PATENTS 
Issued from the United States Patent Office for the week 
ending January 13, 1867. 
THE APPLE WORM 
Ethan Allen, Worcester, improved fine arms. 
Wm. Badger, Memphis, improvement in cotton seed 
pi inters. 
Seneca 11. Bennett, Belleville, Pa., improved field fence. 
Erastus B. Bigelow, Boston, improvement in looms for 
weaving pile fabrics double. 
Samuel Boyd, New York, improvement in the manufac¬ 
ture of hoKe. 
Robert Gray tan, Buffalo, improvement in dies. 
James S. Burnham, Yorkville, improvement in pumps. 
Wm Calruuaod Jasper Cairns, Jersey City, implement 
for holding blacking boxes. 
Enoch Colvin, Poultney, improvement iu knitting ma¬ 
chines. 
Joseph T. Davenport, Augusta, G&., arrangement for 
fixed rails as a substitute for railroad switches. 
Horace E. Dirnicb, St. Louis, improved mode of rilling 
orilri:.- 
Joseph Dtinkley, Carrollton, Mo., improved automatic 
regulator for wind wheels. 
M. B. Dyoit, Philadelphia, Pa,, improvement in burning 
fluid lamps. 
Augustus Elinors, Boston, improvement in stain cases. 
Tbaddeua Fairbanks, St. JoUnsbury, Vt., improvement 
in platform scales. 
Milton Fiukle, New York, improvement in sewing ma¬ 
chines. 
Sanford E. Finch and Theodore Sharp, Greenbush, for 
improvement in flour holt, as applied to grinding mill. 
Lewis A. Hamblen, Chicago, improvement in locomotive 
lamps. 
Jacob Hockumn, Mexico, Inti., improvement in brick 
machines. 
Royal E. House, Binghamton, improved device by which 
petsons approaching may open gates. 
A. F, Johnson, Boston, improvement in sewing machines. 
Wm. Jones, Speedsville, X. Y., improvement in hay 
forks. 
Bodolphng Kinsley, Springfield, Mass., improvement in 
presses. 
U. Marauville, Clinton, 0., improvement in balance for 
detecting counterfeit coin. 
Wm. W. Marsb, Jacksonville, Ill., improvement in oil 
presses. 
Stephen C. Mendenhall, Richmond, Ind., improvement 
iu hand looms. 
Robert J. Morrison, Richmond, fa., improvement iu the 
cutting apparatus for harvesting machines. 
James F. Orr, Orrville, Ala., improvement in eottou giuB. 
Wm. Ustrander, New York, improved machines for roll¬ 
ing tapering tubes. 
.lames Barker, Boston, improvoment in nipple shields. 
Win. Province, Columbia, Mo., improvement in excava¬ 
tors. 
David F. Randall, Chicopee, improvement in the con¬ 
struction of burning tiiiid lamps. 
J. A. Reynolds, Elmira, improved tubular augur. 
Isaac S Kobuid, West Earl, Pa., improved method of 
hanging larra gates. 
Joseph Shaw, Richland, improvement in cotton cul¬ 
tivators. 
John Sha'i er, Reading, Pa., improved hub borer. 
Reuben W. Sharp, Montgomery, Ala., improved machine 
ior planing shingles, or tapering pieces. 
Alfred E. Smith, Bronxville, improved mode of con¬ 
structing mail axles and hubs. 
Daniel IV Snell aud Stephen S. Bartlett, Woonsock't, 
improvuinent in looms. 
tided Spencer, Jacksonburg, O., improved bore or support 
for poets of field fences. 
Emerson C. Stranne, Taunton, improved machine for 
sawing hoops. 
Augustus Stoner, Mount Joy, Pa., improved mode of 
tightening felloes in wheels. 
Joseph Thompson. Durhamville, N. Y., improvement in 
seed planters. 
John S. loan, Venice, N. Y,, improvement in corn 
planters. 
Aifred Tourks, BostOD, improvement in locks of fire arms. 
Thomas J. Tohnan, South Seituate, improved methc^ Of 
adjusting the size of the mouth, in planes. ” 
David Watson, Newark, N, J., improvement in reaping 
and mowing mainlines. 
Caleb C. Walworth, Boston, Mass., improved screw-feed¬ 
ing gear. 
of Lark re- 
moved by tbe mine is not 
Ijlmi too great, by taking the bark 
! H> }■ from some large limbs ana 
fitting it. nicely aroaud.— 
1 Then cover with grafting 
’ ' wax. A bandage of some 
i-i&^^^'aoft material may be placed 
around to keep tbe bark in its place. 
Another method, when the bark has been re¬ 
moved for » greater distance up the tree., is to 
connect the upper and lower portions of the bark 
by Bcions, as seen in engraving. These shoots 
must be made wedge-shaped, and inserted in a cut 
made by a chisel, about an inch above and below 
the edges of the gnawed bark. 
IRON FOR GUNS, 
Great improvements have taken place in the 
material used for manufacturing fire-arms. One 
of these improvements consist in forging the bar¬ 
rels from old horse shoe nails. These, from the 
cold hammering in their manufacture, acquire a 
great condensation and strength of fibre, posses¬ 
sing also tbe requisite qualities of purity and duc¬ 
tility in a high degree. The nails, or “ stubs,"’ are 
first cleaned in a revolving drum and then welded 
into a bloom or mass in an air furnace; afterward 
taken out and forged with heavy trip-hammers; 
then rolled into hare and reduced to rods of the 
proper size by hand-hammering—in which process 
every flaw can be detected and worked out or the 
barrel rejected: the frequent welding, rolling and 
hammering of the iron, increases its strength and 
tenaeityvin an astonishing degree. Some years 
ago, it waH discovered that metal used for gnn-bar- 
rels was still more improved by the admixture of 
one-fourth of steel with the iron, giving additional 
solidity and hardness, without impairing its 
strength. Thus, in the manufacture of wire twist, 
alternate bars of iron and steel are placed on each 
other and forged at a welding heat into one body 
or bar, which is afterward rolled down into rods of 
three-eighths of an inch in breadth and varying 
in thickness according to the weight of the barrel 
which they are intended to make. The flat rod is 
then twisted into a spiral upon an iron mandril, 
and welded together at the edges, assisted by 
many blows of the forging hammer to bring every 
part into juxtaposition while hot.— Sel. 
opinions of one who has Been "a constant, reauev 
of the Rural for three years.'' We almost begin to 
fear that we shall wake up some morning and find 
our pears all turned to quinces: 
Mil Moork —I have bee n a constant reader ofy our 
very excellent paper for nearly three years, and 
have found in it many things useful and entertain¬ 
ing, as well as ihings strange and uncommon. I 
like your paper for the reason that you open your 
columns to the pencilings of the men of the plow, 
as well as those of science and literature, whereby 
we may profit by the experience of the humble, as 
well as of those who occupy elevated positions in 
society. 
I have read Borne articles in your paper which 
were rather hard to believe; nevertheless, they 
may be as really true as this which 1 now send you 
for publication. Many of my neighbors can testify 
to the truth of this statement, and should you deem 
it worthy a place in some corner oi yonr paper, I 
should be pleased. 
On my farm I have a froit and vegetable yard, 
containing about six acres of land, and in it I have 
almost all the choice varieties of fruit adapted to 
this climate, and in considerable abundance. 
Of pears, I have some forty different varieties,— 
Some fifteen of them very tine indeed. From one 
of them, the Flemish Beauty, I cut, in March last. 
PUDDING AND CAKES. 
Eds. Rubai. :—The readers of yonr excellent 
paper will find the following useful in families 
where ecouomy is practiced. 
Let all the odd bits of bread be carefully laid by 
until washing day, or Saturday, and then make a 
Farmer's Economical Pudding. Take stale bread; 
rub it flue; grate the crust; pare and chop some 
apples very fine; have your puddiug dish ready: 
cover the bottom with erums: then a layer of ap¬ 
ples, a little butter, spice, or nutmeg, and a little 
sugar. Fill the dish with alternate layers of bread 
and apples. Four halt a cup boiling water around 
the sides of the dish; bake half an hour; turn it 
upon a plate; send it to the table hot; eat with 
milk or brandy sauce. 
Railroad Cake.— 3 eggs, 3 table spoonfulls 
milk, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup flour. 1 teaspoonfull 
cream tartar, half teaspoon saleratus. 
My Cake.— 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, half cup of but¬ 
ter, 2 tablespoon fulls of sour milk, half teaspoon 
saleratus, A real Dutch Girl. 
Suspension Bridge, Jan., 186*. 
Wm. Weild, Manchester, Great Britain, improvement in ' 
power loom. Patented in England March 7, 1S55. 
Carlyle Whipple, Lewiston, Me., improved method of 
hanging and operating reciprocating saws. 
I>. H. Whittemore, Chicopee Falls, improvement in ma¬ 
chines for paring and slicing apples. 
III. J. Whitmore, I’otsdam, assignor to Frank G. Johnson, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and M. J. Whitmore, aforesaid, improve¬ 
ment iu calendar clocks. 
John B. WiekeT9ham, New York, improved method of 
tusteuiufr the rails of iron fences in the posts. 
0.1), Wilcox, L iston, Pa., improvement in artificial legs. 
A. Winter, Pickens, S. C-, improved method of hanging, 
guiding aud adjusting “ mulaysaws." 
Wm. Wittier, New Orleans, improvoment in oil-pressing 
machinery. Patented in England June 12, 1836. 
Lofus Wood, New York, improvement in stove thimbles, 
or deck Iron. 
G. F. S. Wright, Black I'ak, S. C., improved method ol 
mounting ami guiding circular tawe. 
John 6. Vaughan, Midcloboroagh, Mass., assignor (by 
Cure for Felons. —As there is much needless 
suffering lrorn felons I deem it a duty to send 
a remedy which I know to be perfectly reliable.— 
Take a portion of the bark of sweet Elder, put it 
with some sweet cream into a cup and boil a short 
time; then put in a lump of saltpetre twice as large 
as a pea; let it slowly dry away to the consistency 
of a salve, which apply to the felon. The saltpetre 
is the care, but the elder bark and sweet cream 
aid in easing the pain. As felons sometimes make 
it necessary to amputate a finger or hand, (if left 
alone,) they should be attended to at once. By 
putting iu enough saltpetre any felon can be cured 
in forty-eight hours, and the pain will cease almost 
immediately. w. j. p. 
Henrietta, N. Y., 1857. 
The prize of thirty thousand francs instituted 
by the Emperor of the French for the most nota¬ 
ble discovery iu science, has been awarded to M. 
Fizean. for his experiments and demonstrations 
on the rapidity of the movement of light. 
M. Carrere has shown to the Academy that New¬ 
ton's rings may be reproduced by letting fall on 
water a drop of a solution of bitumen of Judea, 
with benzine and naphtha. It is a curious optical 
experiment, and the more so, as the film may be 
taken off the surface of the water on a sheet of 
paper, and kept, when dry, for permanent observa¬ 
tion. 
The French Government have established a sys¬ 
tem of meteorological observations for the whole 
of France, and observations are now sent every 
day to the central observatory at Paris; five me¬ 
teorological observatories are also to be started in 
Algiers, three on the coast and two in the interior, 
whereby some knowledge will be arrived at, of the 
atmospheric and other climatic phenomena of thai 
part of Africa. 
The spongy metals discovered by M. Chenat are 
found applicable to purposes for which castings 
have hitherto been used. The metal is subjected 
to hydraulic pressure, and any variety of form and 
surface may be produced, solid and durable, with 
great economy of time aud expense .—SeL 
immediate transfer) to Isaac M. Singer, New York, im¬ 
proved method of lathing and plastering. 
Ira Gill, Walpole, Mass., assignor to Ira Gill, aforesaid, 
and Elbridge Brown, Malden, Mass., improvement in ma¬ 
chines lor lorming hat bodies. 
Daniel Berlew, Delaware, O., improved method of plan¬ 
ing sashes. 
RK-13SCBS. 
Geo. W. Geisendorff, Indianapolis, and Jacob 0. Geisen- 
dotflf, Cincinnati, c , improvement in axle cox rollers.— 
Patented Feb. 6. 1855. 
Whitten E. Kidd, New Yo*Y, improvement in moulds tor 
pressing bonnet fronts. Patented Nov. 28,1854. 
Wm H. Walton. New York, improvement in cleaning 
the top flats of carding engines. Patented Dec. 9,189ft. 
To make Crackers. —If you are not weary of 
being troubled with such recipes I wish that you 
would publish it for the benefit of those who desire 
to make their own Crackers. To four quarts of 
flour, which should be warmed, mix in three tea- 
spoonfulls of cream tartar, one teaspoon of salt, 
rub in one tea cup of shortening, equal parts of 
butter and lard. Mix with two teacups of water, 
1$ teaspoonfnllsof soda thoroughly dissolved there¬ 
in. This will make the dough as hard as can be 
rolled, by keeping it warm in the meantime.—A 
Subscriber's Daughter, Belfast, N. Y. 
The Apple Worm is produced from the egg of 
the Codling Moth, and this moth is shown of the 
natural size in the engraving. (4.) It deposits its 
eggs in the colyt or eye of the young fruit, during 
June or July, aud the grub is hatched in a few 
days, and eats its way into the fruit, as seen in the 
engraving, (l,) leaving behind it a brown powder. 
This grub attains its full growth in u few weeks.— 
Its natural size is shown in engraving. (3.) Apples 
thus affected drop sometimes when they are not 
more than half grown, others remain ou the tree 
until they acquire a premature ripeness. Few of 
onr readers but must have noticed ou trees of early 
apples,some wormy specimens ripe,while tbesouud 
apples were far from being fit to eat. Still others, 
and particularly winter apples, seem to ho less af¬ 
fected by the worm, and hang on the tree. 
When the apple falls, the grub leaves, eating its 
way entirely through the apple, as seen in the en¬ 
graving, coming out at (r.) and selecting itself a 
place iu some crevice in the bark of the tree, spins 
a thin white cocoon, shown in the engraving (5,) 
in which to spend the winter, and comes out the 
following spring, a moth, to commit again its dep¬ 
redations ou the fruit, and blast again the hopes of 
the cultivator. Wc think many of these worms 
leave the apples before they fall, particularly those 
which had taken possession of late varieties.— 
Some think that a portion of them produce a 
second generation the same season. We have seen 
no facts to warrant this belief. 
We have no patent remedy for this evil—no 
bomb-shell that will destroy a thousand at a blow. 
We have always had to tight them singly.— 
In early spring search for the cocoons in the rough 
bark, the roughest of which may be scraped off— 
Iu this way a great many may be destroyed. Also, 
pick up all wormy apples as soon as they fall, aud 
feed them to hogs or destroy the worms they con¬ 
tain in some other way. Colk says if old cloths 
are laid in the crotches and around the trees many 
will crawl Into them to form their cocoons, and 
may be readily destroyed. We never tried this,— 
We know, however, that if the two first plans are 
industriously followed, the amount of wormy Iruit 
will be greatly diminished. 
It is but a short period — but little more than 
eighty years — since the introduction of Ark¬ 
wright’s Spinning Machine commenced a competi¬ 
tion with hand spinning that has not only almost 
displaced it, but has increased the business of 
spuming to an extent that could have hardly enter¬ 
ed into the calculation of that ingenious inventor, 
and which has produced results in industry and 
trade, and in the moral and social condition of the 
civilized world, that makes the consideration of 
the subject an interesting one to all classes of the 
community. Hand spiuniug is still performed to 
a limited extent, for certain special purposes—too 
limited for especial mention—while machine spin¬ 
ning has increased to Buell gigantic dimensions 
that it forms one of, if not the most important de¬ 
partment of industrial labor. 
It is calculated that there are at present in use 
throughout the world 40 millions of spindles used 
for spinning cotton, S millions for spinning wool, 
and 3 millions for spinning linen, severally divi¬ 
ded among the countries named below, as follows: 
Cotlm. Wool. Linen. 
Great Britain.21,000,000 2,470,1X10 2,000,000 
United States.6,000,000 1,400,000 15,000 
France.. 6,500,000 860,000 360,000 
Germany and Switzerland.. 3,500,000 1,640,000 162,000 
Russia. 1,000,000 510,000 50,000 
Belgium. 900,000 200,000 150,000 
Spain. SOOJKJO 18,000 6,000 
Italy, Portugal, and the rest 
of the world. 1,300,000 912,000 267.000 
D. D. T. Moore, Esq.:—I n the report of the 
“Fruit Growers’ Society of Western New York” in 
your paper of the 17th instant, in the Raspberry 
discussion, I find that Col. Hodge, of Buffalo, thus 
remarks:—“The Alien is a variety much grown 
about Buffalo, and is a native of Ohio. It is oi a 
reddish black, and a superior fruit.” 
I think Col. Hodge was wrongly reported. If 
not, he must have had iu his mind some other 
raspberry than the " Allen,'' if he meant the rasp¬ 
berry which 1 wrote about in the Country (ieutle- 
rnan aud Horticulturist, and advertised by my 
gardener, “ Tuos. Duff.” Let me say:—The Allen 
raspberry is not “much” grown in, or “around 
Bufi'nlo.” 1 knew it iu only one or two gardens, 
and they are from the same source. I never 3aw 
it iu market—anywhere except from my garden, 
I never sold but a few plants till hist falL It is not 
“ a native of Ohio.” It is not “ a reddish black,” 
but a full, deep red. It is “a Buperior fruit.”— 
Whether Col. Hodge ever saw my “ fruit” in bear¬ 
ing, I do not know; but 1 know that there is uo 
raspberry in this neighborhood, which l have seen, 
that is at all like it. I wish to deceive no oue.— 
The bashes stand in my garden, where I shall be 
happy to show them to any one wishing to see 
them,— the finest raspberry iu growth, hardihood 
auii bearing that I know. 
Black Rock, Jan. I9lh, 1S5T. l.swis F. Au.x.x. 
The remarks of Col. Hodge on the Allen Rasp¬ 
berry were correctly reported. Mr. 11. is not very 
aptto make random statements, and can doubtless 
show reason for those made to the Convention of 
Fruit Growers. 
Cracker Pie.—A s apples are very scarce in 
many sections of the country, I think the house¬ 
wife will find the following recipe for making an 
apple pie out of crackers, very acceptable. For a 
common sized baking plate, take four of the square 
or six of the round crackers, a toaeupfull of sugar, 
and a teaspoonful of tartaric acid; break the 
crackers into a pint of water, add the sugar and 
acid and finish as an apple pie.— Mrs. E. J. S., 
Scipioville, N. Y., 1857. 
Experiments with the Compass. — By advices 
from Melbourne, it appears that Dr. Scoresby has 
accomplished his voyage, which, it will be remem¬ 
bered, was undertaken with a view to carry out a 
caret’ll series of experiments on the compass in 
an iron ship. He sailed in the Royal Charter, an 
iron vessel, and now finds the views he announced 
last year at Liverpool confirmed in all essential 
particulars. Dr. Scoresby says that the only way 
to keep the compass from being influenced by the 
magnetism of the vessel, is to elevate it above the 
reach of that influence, aud that compass was so 
influenced ou board the Royal Charter without in¬ 
convenience. Should Dr. S.’s return voyage prove 
equally satisfactory, the principal cause of risk in 
the navigation of iron ships will be understood and 
removed. 
Great Improvement in Soap.— The wife of an 
American agriculturist has been experimenting in 
soaps, and finds that the addition of three-quar¬ 
ters of a pound of borax to a pound of soap melt¬ 
ed without boiling, makes a saving of one-half in 
the cost of soap, and of three-fourths the labor of 
washing, improving the whiteness of the fabrics ; 
besides the usual caustic effect is thus removed, 
and the hands are left with a peculiar soft and 
silky feeling, leaving nothing more to be desired 
by the most ambitious washerwoman. 
Total....,.40,000,000 8,000,000 3,000,000 
The acknowledged superiority of the spinning 
machinery generally used in this country, enables 
us to produce a greatev amount of material per 
spindle than any other, which not only ternls to 
lessen the apparently great disproportion of the 
number of spindles employed here aud in Groat 
Britain, but enables ns to compete successfully 
with them iu their home markets in the cheaper 
description of goods manufactured of eotton^ 
while we are enabled to furnish them to mostof the 
other markets in the world, beyond the reach of 
e ompe ti ti o n.— Inventor. 
Remedy for Curing Frosted Feet.—A writer 
in the New York Journal of Commerce says a sim¬ 
ple and effectual remedy for curing frosted feet, 
and one that will afford immediate relief, is to heat 
a brick very hot, and hold the foot over us long as it 
can be held without burning. Cut an onion in two, 
dipping it repeatedly in salt, rub it all over the 
feet. The juice of Die onion will be dried into the 
foot, and effect a cure in a very short time. If this 
is done a few times, it is almost certain to cure 
your feet entirely. 
A Railroad to be OpRRATKn by Telegraph.— 
Tho Buffalo Republic understands that, arrange¬ 
ments have been fully completed to build a single 
track railroad from that city to New York. The 
route is to be air-line to Syracuse, and from thence 
to Newburgh. The road is to be a single six loot 
track, to be operated by telegraph, and to be de¬ 
signed principally for the weighting business.— 
The expenses it is confidently estimated, will not 
exceed $6,000,000. This announcement is made 
in apparently good faith. 
